Gloucestershire WebServices Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Gloucestershire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebServices over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Hendon Hertfordshire Highlands Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	50
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	7	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	6.931 %	2.381 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£250	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£347
% change on same period last year	-0.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£55.00	-
Average hourly rate	£57.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£60.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.47	£32.67
% change on same period last year	+11.62 %
Application Development Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	101	84
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.135 %	0.085 %
Daily rates quoted	22	11
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£302
Average daily rate	£325	£315
% change on same period last year	+3.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.33	£29.79
Average hourly rate	£41.72	£30.69
% change on same period last year	+35.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.11	£31.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
WebServices South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WebServices across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebServices across the Gloucestershire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebServices across the Gloucestershire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebServices within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Gloucester	-	3	-	-
Cheltenham	+1	2	£250	-
Stroud	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing WebServices also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WebServices.

1 10 (90.91 %) .NET 2 7 (63.64 %) SQL 2 7 (63.64 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (45.45 %) C# 4 4 (36.36 %) AJAX 5 3 (27.27 %) Silverlight 5 3 (27.27 %) SharePoint 5 3 (27.27 %) XML 5 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 6 2 (18.18 %) HTML 6 2 (18.18 %) JavaScript 6 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 6 2 (18.18 %) ASP 7 1 (9.091 %) VBScript 7 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET

7 1 (9.091 %) ActionScript 7 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (9.091 %) Flash 7 1 (9.091 %) XHTML 7 1 (9.091 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (9.091 %) CSS 7 1 (9.091 %) E-business 7 1 (9.091 %) Back Office 7 1 (9.091 %) Finance 7 1 (9.091 %) Migration 7 1 (9.091 %) E-Learning 7 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory 7 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE 7 1 (9.091 %) Intranet 7 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing WebServices also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WebServices. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (90.91 %) .NET 2 7 (63.64 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (36.36 %) AJAX 4 3 (27.27 %) Silverlight 4 3 (27.27 %) XML 5 2 (18.18 %) ASP 5 2 (18.18 %) HTML 6 1 (9.091 %) CSS 6 1 (9.091 %) XHTML 6 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 3 (27.27 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Flash	General 1 1 (9.091 %) Back Office 1 1 (9.091 %) Finance 1 1 (9.091 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 9 (81.82 %) Developer 2 5 (45.45 %) .NET Developer 3 4 (36.36 %) C# Developer 3 4 (36.36 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 3 (27.27 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (18.18 %) Web Developer 6 1 (9.091 %) Development Manager 6 1 (9.091 %) Senior Manager 6 1 (9.091 %) Data Analyst 6 1 (9.091 %) Analyst 6 1 (9.091 %) Software Developer 6 1 (9.091 %) Project Manager 6 1 (9.091 %) Software Engineer 6 1 (9.091 %) Flash Developer 6 1 (9.091 %) Data Manager 6 1 (9.091 %) .NET Web Developer 6 1 (9.091 %) Developer Analyst 6 1 (9.091 %) Web Analyst 6 1 (9.091 %) ActionScript Developer 6 1 (9.091 %) Migration Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) E-Learning 1 1 (9.091 %) Human Factors
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (9.091 %) E-Commerce 1 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE 1 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 1 1 (9.091 %) E-business 1 1 (9.091 %) Migration 1 1 (9.091 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 7 (63.64 %) SQL 2 5 (45.45 %) C# 3 2 (18.18 %) JavaScript 4 1 (9.091 %) VBScript 4 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET 4 1 (9.091 %) ActionScript
System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft